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May 24, 2010
05/10
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I Puritani I puritani (The Puritans) is an opera in three acts, by Vincenzo Bellini. It is his last opera. Its libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli based on Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality. This 1974 recording stars Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. Richard Bonynge conducts.
Topic: I Puritani
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Mar 12, 2012
03/12
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Sean Bianco
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Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet
Topics: Werther, Jules Massenet
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Apr 4, 2011
04/11
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Sean Bianco
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Massenet: Herodiade Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on December 19, 1881. The libretto is a retelling of the story of John the Baptist, Salome, Herod Antipas and Herodias, but is strikingly less psychological and bloody than Richard Strauss's Salome, based on a text by Oscar Wilde....
Topics: Massenet, Herodiade, opera
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Oct 5, 2009
10/09
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Sean Bianco
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Il Trovatore Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was first performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome on January 19, 1853. During the 1854/55 season while in Paris, Verdi revised the opera for the Théatre des Italiens as Le trouvère and its many performances in January 1855 were well received. This 1970 recording stars...
Topics: opera, classical, Sacramento, public radio
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Oct 9, 2012
10/12
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Sean Bianco
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Verdi: Aida
Topic: Verdi, Aida
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Jan 4, 2010
01/10
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Sean Bianco
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Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée. This special âGalla Performanceâ recorded in the mid 60âs stars Ettore Bastianini, Ljuba Welitsch, Jussi Bjoerling, Renata Tebaldi, Erika Koth, Waldemar Kmentt, Peter Klein, Walter Berry, Fernando Corena, Teresa Berganza, Hilde Guden, Erich Kunz, Joan Sutherland, Regina Resnik, Hedwig Schubert, Giulietta Simionato, Mario del Monaco, Eberhard Wachter,...
Topics: Die Fledermaus, opera, Bianco, Sacramento
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Aug 23, 2010
08/10
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Sean Bianco
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favorite 2
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Friday Night at the Opera show from 8/20/10
Topics: opera, classical, Sacramento, Madama Butterfly, Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica,...
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Mar 14, 2011
03/11
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Sean Bianco
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Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre from Carre's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1. It debuted at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris on March 19, 1859. This 1986 recording stars Francisco Araiza and Kiri Te Kanawa. Sir Colin Davis conducts.
Topics: Gounod, Faust, opera
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Jan 25, 2010
01/10
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Sean Bianco
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The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Its first performance was on March 1, 1950 in Philadelphia, with Patricia Neway as the lead heroine Magda Sorel and Rosemary Kuhlmann as the Secretary of the consulate. The opera is an analogy to the real-life situations of how non-American scientists and political prisoners were treated and hindered from entering the United States in the early 1950's. For The Consul, Menotti won the...
Topics: Consul, Gianni Schicchi, opera, Sacramento
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Mar 1, 2010
03/10
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Sean Bianco
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La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo by Victor Hugo. First performance: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1876. La Gioconda was a major success for Ponchielli, especially in its third and latest version (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 28, 1880), as well as the greatest success in the history of Italian opera between Verdi's Aida (1871) and Otello (1887). It is also the most famous example of the Italian genre of Grande...
Topics: La Gioconda, opera, Sacramento
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Oct 25, 2010
10/10
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Sean Bianco
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Friday Night at the Opera show from 10/22/10
Topics: Opera, classical, Sacramento, Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin, Pyotr Ilyich, Shilovsky, Thomas Allen,...
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May 7, 2012
05/12
by
Sean Bianco
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All the hits. The fund drive edition of the program
Topics: opera, public radio
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Feb 1, 2011
02/11
by
Sean Bianco
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All potpourri show for the winter fund drive
Topics: opera, favorites, relaxing opera
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Sep 27, 2010
09/10
by
Sean Bianco
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Friday Night Opera show from 09/24/10
Topics: opera, Classical, Sacramento, La Juive, Fromental Halévy, Halévy
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Apr 2, 2012
04/12
by
Sean Bianco
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Join host Sean Bianco for an all Opera Potpourri. A great night of opera for the whole family
Topic: opera
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Jul 11, 2011
07/11
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Sean Bianco
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The Ballad of Baby Doe is an opera by the American composer Douglas Moore
Topics: Douglas Moore, Ballad of Baby Doe, opear
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Sep 25, 2012
09/12
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Sean Bianco
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Wagner: Gotterdammerung
Topic: Wagner, ring, Gotterdammerung
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Nov 19, 2012
11/12
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Sean Bianco
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The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered in 1791 at Schikaneder's theater in Vienna.
Topic: Mozart, Magic Flute
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Sep 14, 2009
09/09
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Sean Bianco
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Der Rosenkavalier Der Rosenkavalier, op. 59 or The Knight of the Rose is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was first performed in Dresden on January 26, 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt. Until the premiere, the working title was Ochs von Lerchenau. The choice of the name...
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Jul 18, 2011
07/11
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Sean Bianco
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Guglielmo Tell or William Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell. Based on the legend of William Tell, this opera was Rossini's last, even though the composer lived for nearly forty more years. The William Tell Overture, with its famous finale, is a major part of the concert and recording repertoire. While it was first performed by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier on...
Topics: Rossini, William Tell, opera
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May 2, 2011
05/11
by
Sean Bianco
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Spring fund drive edition of Friday Night at the Opera Donate at www.capradio.org
Topics: Tosca, opera potpourri, public radio
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Jun 30, 2009
06/09
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Sean Bianco
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The power and faith of the human spirit are brought to life in Beethoven's moving and uplifting opera. This BBC release from their archives is a dream come true for opera lovers all over the world. Recorded "Live" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1961 with the Queen Mother herself in the audience, this performance made for an evening that none who were there would soon forget. The amazing Otto Klemperer led a cast of top-flight singers all in their prime. Starring Sena...
Topics: Beethoven, Fidelio, Sena Jurinac, Jon Vickers, Gottlob Frick, Hans Hotter, Opera, Sacramento, KXJZ
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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Sean Bianco
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Der Rosenkavalier Der Rosenkavalier, op. 59 or The Knight of the Rose is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was first performed in Dresden on January 26, 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt. Until the premiere, the working title was Ochs von Lerchenau. The choice of the name...
Topics: Der Rosenkavalier, opera, classical, Sacramento, public radio
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Aug 13, 2012
08/12
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Sean Bianco
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Donizetti: La Fille Du Regiment
Topics: Donizetti, La Fille Du Regiment
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Oct 29, 2012
10/12
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Sean Bianco
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Spooky Double Bill - Wagner/Bartok: Der Fliegenden Hollander & Bluebeards Castle
Topic: Wagner, Bartok, Flying Dutchman, Bluebeard's Castle
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Nov 1, 2010
11/10
by
Sean Bianco
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Friday Night at the Opera show from 10/29/10
Topics: Operea, classical, Sacramento, potpourri, best of
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Sep 10, 2012
09/12
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Sean Bianco
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Week 2 of Wagner's Ring cycle
Topic: Wagner, ring
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Nov 15, 2012
11/12
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Sean Bianco
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Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. The opera is based on the drama Woyzeck left incomplete by the German playwright Georg Büchner at his death. He adapted the libretto himself, retaining "the essential character of the play, with its many short scenes, its abrupt and sometimes brutal language, and its stark, if haunted, realism." The subject matter, the inevitability of hardship and...
Topic: Berg, Wozzeck
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Apr 23, 2012
04/12
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playlist at http://www.capradio.org/171371
Topics: Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano
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Aug 18, 2009
08/09
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Sean Bianco
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Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. This 1989 recording stars Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, June Anderson, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Shirley Verrett. Ricardo Chailly conducts.
Topics: Rigolette, Giuseppe Verdi, Luciano Pavarotti, Lea Nucci, June Anderson, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Shirley...
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Jan 17, 2011
01/11
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Sean Bianco
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Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on December 24, 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Contrary to popular belief, the opera was not written to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, nor that of the Khedivial Opera House (which opened with Verdi's Rigoletto) in the same year. Verdi had been...
Topics: Verdi, Aida, opera
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Sep 3, 2012
09/12
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Sean Bianco
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Topic: Wagner, ring, Das Rheingold
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Dec 21, 2009
12/09
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Sean Bianco
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Handel's Messiah Messiah is an English oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel, his most famous creation and is one the most popular works in Western choral literature. The libretto by Charles Jennens is entirely drawn from the King James and Great Bibles and interprets the Christian doctrine of the Messiah. Composed in London during the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin, Ireland on April 13, 1742. The Messiah sing-alongs are now very popular around Christmas. Sir Neville Marriner...
Topics: Handel Messiah, KXPR, Sacramento
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Jul 11, 2009
07/09
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Sean Bianco
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Opera double bill: The Consul / Gianni Schicchi The Consul is an opera in three acts with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, his first full-length opera. Its first performance was on March 1, 1950 in Philadelphia, with Patricia Neway as the lead heroine Magda Sorel and Rosemary Kuhlmann as the Secretary of the consulate. The opera is an analogy to the real-life situations of how non-American scientists and political prisoners were treated and hindered from entering the United States in...
Topics: The Consul, Gianni Schicchi, Gian Carlo Menotti, Patricia Neway, Chester Ludgin, Giancomo Puccini,...
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Dec 20, 2010
12/10
by
Sean Bianco
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Friday Night at the Opera - Christmas
Topics: Christmas opera, Bianco
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Apr 26, 2011
04/11
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Sean Bianco
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L'amico Fritz is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891 from a libretto by P. Suardon, based on the French novel L'ami Fritz by Ãmile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is probably Mascagni's most famous work after Cavalleria rusticana, today it is performed far more rarely than Cavalleria, which remains Mascagni's only enduringly popular work. The "Cherry Duet" between Fritz and Suzel in Act 2 is the best...
Topics: Mascagni, L'amico Fritz, opera
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Mar 28, 2011
03/11
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Sean Bianco
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Der Rosenkavalier or The Knight of the Rose is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on January 26, 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt. This classic 1957 recording stars Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Otto Edelmann....
Topics: Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier
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Aug 27, 2012
08/12
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Topic: Donizetti, Don Pasquale
